deranger
@deranger@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 10 hours ago:
If you really want to see this type of content you can easily find it with the tiniest amount of motivation.
- Comment on DOGE official at DOJ bragged about hacking, distributing pirated software. 13 hours ago:
Nowhere in the article does it say anything like that. It’s pretty straight forward reporting - the guy ran some websites and distributed pirated books and software, and hacked a few websites. No judgements are passed, it’s just factual information.
- Comment on Breaking - Trump Resigns! 1 day ago:
Flightradar24 had a notification that the Concorde was flying again, first thing I saw this morning and I completely fell for it.
- Comment on Embracer studio Eidos-Montreal has laid off 75 employees 2 days ago:
I hate
embracereraser group, fuck em for cancelling the Deus Ex game. - Comment on Virgin Physicists 3 days ago:
Not knocking people’s choices, it just wasn’t for me. If math in reality isn’t math in education, it’s even better that I left.
I’ll still contend math is much more elegant than physics or engineering, though. There’s no e^I*pi + 1 = 0 equivalent for either.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 3 days ago:
Respect. Physics is way up there in terms of hard science nerd cred.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 3 days ago:
Eh, it’s just fundamentally ugly to me and that really turned me off. Rounding doesn’t help, that’s like turning the lights off for sex. Engineering is still very cool to me, and I have huge respect for those who do it, but I’d never have made it. It’s physics but even further perverted by reality. Math was beautiful to me because of how “pure” it was. Just straight logic, divorced from the messy world we live in. Tidy coefficients and elegant derivations.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 3 days ago:
Numbers like that are why I quit majoring in mechanical engineering. Physics took the beauty of math and made it ugly.
You knew something was wrong in calculus when you got a fucked up coefficient that wasn’t a nice number.
- Comment on Big Marijuana don't want you to know... 3 days ago:
Spun is also fucked up on hallucinogens, like at a festival when you take too much acid.
- Comment on Big Marijuana don't want you to know... 3 days ago:
You didn’t discover this as a child? Shit, spinning around was the first high I ever had, followed a few years later by hyperventilation.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 4 days ago:
I’m aware. I’m also a medical lab scientist and the entire thing screamed bullshit from the start, not necessarily due to the feasibility of testing on small volumes, but things like calibration and quality control.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 5 days ago:
The most bizarre part of the Theranos scandal is that any medical lab tech/scientist could have told you, right from the initial pitch, the entire thing was a massive scam. There was literally no reason to ever think this technology was feasible and a mountain of reasons it wasn’t.
- Comment on Since they wouldn't understand phones, I'd just tell them I was speaking to demons. 6 days ago:
I know you said read, but the reason this came to mind was from rewatching an excellent Down The Rabbit Hole video recently. It’s a good one, 24 minutes long and no annoying bullshit or filler. The concept of social density is mentioned in the video, which isn’t something I saw reading the wiki on it or during a quick search.
Side note, these experiments are what inspired the Rats of NIMH books which you may be familiar with.
- Comment on Since they wouldn't understand phones, I'd just tell them I was speaking to demons. 6 days ago:
Makes me think about the concept of social density in the mouse utopia experiments. It wasn’t population density per se that caused the decline of the mouse society, it was the inability to escape social situations.
- Comment on What's the problem sweetie? You've barely touched your eggsicle 6 days ago:
Fantastic post workout snack, hydration and high quality protein.
- Comment on FOREX is not for the faint hearted 1 week ago:
Using an ATM to get foreign currency is still insanely better than using a currency exchange place like you see in international airports. Talking 1-2% fees versus 15-20% or higher.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
Kinda curious if me skipping all the shitty older versions is why I think the current one is fine. I always opt in to the new versions ASAP to get the pain of switching out of the way sooner rather than later.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
I got a new job, fully remote, and we use Teams. Not gonna lie, I don’t get the hate. It seems as exactly adequate as WebEx or Zoom. None of them make me cum, none of them make me upset.
What is it about Teams that people hate so much? How does WebEx or Zoom do it any better?
Fully onboard with hating new Outlook though, fuck it sucks. Can’t even browse the global address list, it’s search only.
- Comment on Is this something sh admins are aware of? "Many Lemmy instances are misconfigured, which can break progressive video streaming and even basic image loading in strange ways." 1 week ago:
There’s video streaming on Lemmy?
- Comment on What happens to your data if 23andMe collapses? 1 week ago:
That’s not true in the slightest.
- Comment on Good to exercise at home instead of gym? 1 week ago:
I spend a grand on a nice adjustable dumbbell set and a bench and went from 165lbs to 210lbs over the last 18 months with a combination of weight training and eating better. It’s absolutely possible to work out at home with the resources that are out there these days. I do miss some of the equipment at the gym but the convenience of a home gym is just too good.
I would point out that getting lean/shredded is not a function of the gym, it’s a function of the kitchen. You cannot out exercise a bad or even mediocre diet. You can use a gym to build muscle, increase flexibility, or improve cardiovascular fitness, but there’s no avoiding making changes to your diet if you want to decrease body fat.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 1 week ago:
They’re just moving to the app store version.
- Comment on US appeals court says AI authors don't qualify for copyright. 2 weeks ago:
Ah, I see. Yeah that’s pretty bastardly.
- Comment on US appeals court says AI authors don't qualify for copyright. 2 weeks ago:
Was Kinkade misrepresenting the production process or something? If not- who cares? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
- Comment on Pineapple was never the problem 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s kinda dumb, much like putting whole little tomatoes on a pizza It’s hard to get topping consistency from bite to bite and they’re likely to roll off.
Taste wise, everyone’s different, I’m not going to judge in that aspect.
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’. 3 weeks ago:
Global Positioning System, I sleep Universal Positioning System, real shit
- Comment on How was this old "no hands pushup" viral video made? 4 weeks ago:
You’d have to have the most insanely strong calves in history to push up using your feet only.
- Comment on I miss them so much. 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think I’ve had fried rice without eggs before. Isn’t that one of the core ingredients?
- Comment on is telling an employee how he has to speak micromanaging? Is it toxic? 5 weeks ago:
I got called into the office by my supervisor for a verbal counseling because I used the words “myriad” and “recalcitrant” in an email to a subordinate who was not doing their job.
- Comment on Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away? 1 month ago:
Captain Planet has to go off and use his prostate massager so he can bust so hard he’s reduced to his constituent elements.
